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April 19, 2021
The doomsday cult the Children of God was also a sex cult. Terry Gross talks with Lauren Hough (Huff), author of a new collection of personal essays. She’ll also talk about being a lesbian air force airman during the don’t ask don’t tell era, about working as a bouncer in a gay club, and as a cable…
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April 16, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with Julie Lythcott-Haims, whose best-selling book warned parents about micro-managing kids’ lives. Her new book, Your Turn, has advice for young adults trying to cope in today’s world. And we’ll talk about her powerful memoir, True American- about the…
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April 15, 2021
Much of Louise Erdrich’s award-winning fiction has focused on the experiences of Native Americans. The main character of her latest novel, The Night Watchman is based on her grandfather, who was chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. It’s now out in paperback. Join us. Fresh Air can be…
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April 15, 2021
After losing a friend shot and killed by police, and after protests followed by more police shootings, Saidu Tijan Thomas Jr. despaired that it wasn’t much use fighting anymore. Last summer, after George Floyd was killed, instead of protesting, he started reporting on people leading protests, for…
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April 14, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with journalist Patrick Raddon Keefe, author of the new book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. It’s an investigation into the Sackler family and its sometimes deceptive practices. The Sacklers own Purdue Pharma, the company that…
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April 12, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with Henry Louis Gates Jr. His new book The Black Church is a companion to his PBS series of the same name. He describes black churches as the first institutions built by black people and run independent of white society in the U.S. We’ll talk about how the…
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Apr 09, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Sam Briger talks with writer, director, and actor Emerald Fennell. She wrote and directed the feminist revenge film “Promising…
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Apr 08, 2021
Today, Novelist Yaa Gyasi. Her first novel Homegoing, published in 2016, was about the legacy of slavery and won a National Book critics circle…
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Apr 07, 2021
Professor Daniel Lieberman talks about some facts and myths about exercise. His latest book is called Exercised. Some of the questions he addresses…
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Apr 05, 2021
Megan Rapinoe helped lead U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team to two World Cups and an Olympic Gold Medal. She was one of the first high-profile…
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Apr 02, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross remembers writer Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show, who died last week….and we’ll…
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Apr 02, 2021
Rashida Jones stars in the movie, “On the Rocks” with Bill Murray. The movie was written and directed by Sofia Coppola, and draws on her relationship…
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Apr 01, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, how the US Congress has launched the most far-reaching anti-poverty program in decades. Dave Davies talks with The New York…
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Mar 30, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, how giant tech firms are warping the economy and increasing inequality among population centers. Dave Davies talks with…
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Mar 29, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, the real horrors of Jim Crow America mix with supernatural horrors - like monsters and ghosts - in the HBO series Lovecraft…
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Mar 26, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, the amazing lives of migratory birds. Dave Davies talks with author Scott Weidensaul about the millions of birds flying unseen…
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Mar 25, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with Kathryn Hahn, one of the stars of the series Wandavision, and Riz Ahmed who’s nominated for an Oscar…
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Mar 25, 2021
On the next fresh air, the threat of domestic terrorism. Terry Gross talks with Elizabeth Neumann, who served as assistant secretary for threat…
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Mar 23, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, race, punishment, and the afterlife of mass incarceration, the subject of Reuben Jonathan Miller’s new book. His father and…
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Mar 22, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, the director and co-director of the film Soul, which is nominated for an Oscar for best animated film. Terry Gross talks with…
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Mar 19, 2021
County music star Loretta Lynn has a new album featuring duets with other women in country music. And an updated and expanded edition of her 1976…
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Mar 19, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, correcting the record on Lady Bird Johnson. Dave Davies talks with writer Julia Sweig about the First Lady regarded as the…
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Mar 17, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, the investigation into possible criminal misconduct by Donald Trump--an investigation led by Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr.…
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Mar 16, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks with Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2017. His novels Remains of the Day and…
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Mar 15, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, How the growing use of automation is eliminating jobs, and sophisticated algorithms based on artificial intelligence are…
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Mar 12, 2021
In the 1890’s, Wilmington, North Carolina had a thriving black middle class, but that ended in 1898, with a bloody campaign of violence and…
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Mar 12, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies speaks with Deborah Feldman, whose memoir about leaving the ultra-orthodox Satmar Hasidic community in…
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Mar 10, 2021
Jon Batiste is the music director and bandleader on The Late Show with Steven Colbert, and he composed, arranged and performs the jazz in the…
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Mar 09, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with MIT professor Sherry Turkle, who’s spent decades studying the impact of digital technology on our…
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Mar 08, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks with Katie Englehart, author of a new book about the Right to Die, and how that’s played out in states and…
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Mar 05, 2021
On the next Fresh Air – Terry Gross speaks with James McBride, best known for his memoir The Color of Water, about being the son of an African…
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Mar 05, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks with Walter Isaacson. His new book is about discoveries related to RNA, the molecule at the heart of the…
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Mar 03, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks to Dexter Filkins, one of the greatest war reporters of our time, about returning to Afghanistan in…
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Mar 02, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Arun Venugopal talks to Lee Issac Chung, writer and director of the new film Minari, about a family of South Korean immigrants…
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Mar 01, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks with the founder of Bellingcat, an international collection of people who’ve become digital detectives,…
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Feb 26, 2021
The new film, One Night in Miami, which is nominated for two Golden Globes, is about the 1964 meeting of Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali, Sam Cooke and Jim…
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Feb 26, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, the life of a card cheat. Dave Davies speaks with writer, performer, and magician Derek Del Gaudio. His new memoir, Amoral…
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Feb 23, 2021
On the next Fresh Air. Terry Gross talks with Tim O’Brien. O’Brien talks about the new documentary, the War and Peace of Tim O’Brien, that’s about…
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Feb 19, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks with Sasha Baron Cohen. He’s back as the fictitious journalist Borat from Kazakstan in Borat Subsequent…
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Feb 17, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies speaks with Heather McGhee, former president of the progressive think tank Demos. She says racial discrimination…
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Feb 17, 2021
Nearly 3 million women dropped out of the workforce last year, many to stay home and help their children with remote learning. On the next Fresh Air,…
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Feb 15, 2021
To better understand police shootings and racial disparities in the social justice system, Rosa Brooks became a reserve police officer in Washington…
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Feb 15, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Sam Sanders speaks with Spike Lee. His latest film Da 5 Bloods, is nominated for 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Also we…
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Feb 11, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross remembers Mary Wilson, who was an original member of The Supremes, along with Diana Ross and Florence Ballard.…
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Feb 10, 2021
**Today's show may be pre-empted by NPR special coverage of former President Trump's second impeachment trial** On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross…
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Feb 09, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, the underground cyber arms industry, and how the National Security Agency’s own cyber arsenal got into the hands of our…
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Feb 05, 2021
Terry Gross talks with Deirdre Fischel about her new PBS documentary, which focuses on the Minneapolis police department. We also hear from Sergeant…
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Feb 04, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, the life and music of Dusty Springfield, whose hits included Son of a Preacher Man, You don’t Have to Say You Love Me, Wishin’…
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Feb 03, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert. He’s now President Biden’s chief medical…
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Feb 02, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Filipina journalist Maria Ressa. Her coverage of populist president Rodrigo Duterte has gotten her internet trolls, death…
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Feb 01, 2021
When we think of the mob, we picture The Godfather and tabloid murders. On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with writer Russell Shorto who says…
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Feb 01, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks with Ellen Harper, who runs the Folk Music Center in Claremont, California, and her son Ben Harper, a…
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Jan 27, 2021
Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theories long believed President Trump would imprison the deep-state actors America. But it didn’t happen. On the…
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Jan 26, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, we look at the increasingly sophisticated surveillance technology employed by local police departments often with little…
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Jan 25, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, an inside look at negotiations in the 1990s, which held the prospect of bringing peace between Israel and the Palestinians.…
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Jan 22, 2021
Terry Gross talks with Evan Osnos, a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of a book about Biden. And we remember jazz musician Howard Johnson,…
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Jan 22, 2021
After damaging his vocal cords trying to be a rock singer, New Yorker staff writer John Colapinto became fascinated with the human voice. On the next…
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Jan 20, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, some facts and myths about exercise, like is sitting really the new smoking; does running ruin your knees. Terry Gross talks…
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Jan 19, 2021
Donald Trump called climate change a hoax. Joe Biden calls it an existential threat and has promised to start reversing Trump environmental policies…
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Jan 18, 2021
Elizabeth Blackwell was admitted to medical school in the 1840s as a prank by her male classmates. But she was no joke. On the next Fresh Air, author…
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Jan 15, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross listens back to interviews with people we recently lost--New York Times reporter Neal Sheehan who obtained the…
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Jan 15, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, recently-declassified documents reveal new details of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King, and the agency’s efforts…
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Jan 14, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross listens back to interviews with people we recently lost--New York Times reporter Neal Sheehan who obtained the…
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Jan 13, 2021
On the next Fresh Air -- director Paul Greengrass who directed the films United Flight 93 and Captain Phillips. His new film is the western News of…
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Jan 12, 2021
Kerri Greenidge is the author of Black Radical which tells the story of William Monroe Trotter, an African-American newspaper editor who led mass…
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Jan 11, 2021
The senate filibuster dates back to the Jim Crow era, when southern senators wanted to preserve white supremacy--according to our next guest Adam…
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Jan 08, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross remembers writer Barry Lopez who died Christmas Day, and listen back to two interviews with him--from 1989 and…
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Jan 07, 2021
On the next Fresh Air, journalist Lawrence Wright talks about his article in the New Yorker, called The Plague Year. It examines the mistakes and…
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Jan 05, 2021
Maria Ressa’s coverage of populist president Rodrigo Duterte has gotten her internet trolls, death threats, criminal charges…and Time Magazine’s 2018…
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Jan 05, 2021
Journalist Kai Strittmatter talks about growing surveillance and social control in China. It’s the subject of his new book. He reports that in some…
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Jan 04, 2021
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is CNN’s chief medical correspondent and a practicing neurosurgeon. He talks about his new book Keep Sharp. It explains some of the…
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Jan 01, 2021
Frances Ford Coppola has released a new re-edited version of The Godfather Part III. On the next Fresh Air – Terry Gross looks back at her 2016…
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Dec 30, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we brighten things up with some great songs from the 1920s and 30’s. Terry Gross will be joined by singer and songwriter…
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Dec 29, 2020
Broadway star Rebecca Luker died last December 23rd of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. She was 59. She received Tony nominations for her performances…
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Dec 28, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Stephen King talks about writing his horror classic The Stand, about a Pandemic, and now living through a pandemic. And we…
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Dec 25, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Scott Frank, co- creator of the popular Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit.” Frank also created the series Godless and wrote…
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Dec 24, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross goes into our archive for a concert of Christmas and winter songs--some classics and some obscure ones--performed…
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Dec 23, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross will look back at this crazy year in movies and TV--a year with theaters mostly closed, and so many productions…
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Dec 22, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, the billionaires who have become even richer during the pandemic--and how some of them aren’t even spending the money to…
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Dec 21, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, actor Angela Bassett. She won a SAG Award last year for her role in the Marvel film Black Panther and is the voice of one of…
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Dec 18, 2020
On the next Fresh Air - Terry Gross talks with Elton John about his memoir which is now out in paperback. He’s pretty forthcoming about family,…
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Dec 18, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with Michael J Fox talks about his new memoir, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality.…
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Dec 16, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Ed Yong, a science writer for the Atlantic who has been covering the pandemic since it started. His new article is about the…
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Dec 15, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Sam Briger talks with the curators of a new anthology collecting the flip sides of the 78’s collected in The Anthology of Folk…
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Dec 14, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with actor and rapper Riz Ahmed. He stars in the new film Sound of Metal as a punk-metal drummer who goes…
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Dec 11, 2020
You’ll be hearing excerpts of two interviews Terry Gross recorded with spy novelist John LeCarre, from 1989 (during the waning days of the Cold War,…
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Dec 10, 2020
Tim Gunn was the host of the popular, long-running fashion competition series ‘Project Runway. His latest competition show, ‘Making the Cut’ is now…
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Dec 09, 2020
William Barr has been honored by the Catholic church for his faith. But how does the church reckon with the attorney general's support for capital…
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Dec 09, 2020
Actress and writer Mindy Kaling co-created and wrote the Netflix series Never Have I Ever that draws on her own experiences in high school. Kaling…
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Dec 08, 2020
James McBride’s latest novel, Deacon King Kong, is set in 1969 and is about the effect of a shooting on a community. McBride is best known for his…
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Dec 07, 2020
Janelle Monae electrified the audience with her opening number at the 2020 Academy Awards. She describes herself as a black queer artist, telling…
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Dec 04, 2020
Lin Manuel Miranda is the creator of the hit Broadway show Hamilton, a hip-hop musical about the founding fathers. A film of Hamilton, is streaming…
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Dec 03, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we celebrate the life and music of jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck. Sunday marks the centennial of his birth. We'll…
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Dec 02, 2020
In the final weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump has ousted his defense secretary and considered striking Iran and is expected to pull troops from…
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Dec 01, 2020
On the next fresh air, we brighten things up with some great songs from the 1920s and 30’s. Terry Gross will be joined by singer and songwriter…
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Nov 30, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, actor Hugh Grant, known for his roles in films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones Diary, and Music and Lyrics.…
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Nov 26, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with author Neal Gabler about the late Senator Ted Kennedy and the decline of American liberalism. Kennedy…
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Nov 25, 2020
One of our all-time favorites, Strand of Oaks, returns to the eTown stage this week. This dynamic, gifted writer and singer (and one of the genuinely…
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Nov 25, 2020
Conan O’Brien recently announced he will end his TBS late-night talk show in June, after 10 years, and after 28 years total as a talk show host.…
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Nov 24, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with David Chang, chef, restaurateur, and host of the Netflix series Ugly Delicious. He’s closed some of his…
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Nov 23, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks about vaccination with Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas…
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Nov 20, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, the CIA's secret experiments with LSD in the 50's and 60s in search of a drug that could be used to control the minds of…
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Nov 20, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with Catherine Coleman Flowers about her campaign to bring basic sanitation to the nation’s poor. So many…
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Nov 18, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, my guest will be our 44th president, Barack Obama. Volume one of his memoir has just been published. He writes: there have…
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Nov 17, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we talk about the Chicago 7 trial, with Jon Wiener. Seven, initially eight, activists against the war in Vietnam were accused…
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Nov 16, 2020
Once scorned by Republican leaders, Donald Trump has made the party his own, inspiring fear among GOP leaders and candidates who dare to cross him.…
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Nov 13, 2020
Pianist Keith Jarrett revealed in October that he can no longer perform, because two strokes in 2018 left him unable to use his left hand. On the…
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Nov 13, 2020
On the next Fresh Air. Terry Gross talks with Gillian Anderson. She’s currently starring in two Netflix series: On the third season of The Crown, she…
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Nov 11, 2020
On the next Fresh Air -- what President Trump might do in the remaining days of his presidency. A talk with journalist Garret Graf. He says the…
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Nov 06, 2020
On the next Fresh air, our interview with jazz singer Cecile McLorin Salvant. Her repertoire includes Jazz standards and forgotten early songs, show…
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Nov 06, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with Megan Rapinoe, co-captain of the World Champion U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. She helped lead them…
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Nov 04, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, the difficult questions the next President will face about a presidency much changed by Donald Trump. You’ll hear from Jack…
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Nov 03, 2020
On the next Fresh Air - after the polls close -- how our electoral system has been holding up. We talk with Barton Gellman, whose article The…
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Nov 02, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with Jerald Walker, the author of Street Shadows: a Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Redemption, and the memoir…
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Oct 30, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies remembers singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver's, he died this week at the age of 81. Shaver became famous in the…
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Oct 30, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Sam Sanders talks with Aaron Sorkin about his new Netflix film, The Trial of the Chicago Seven. The film dramatizes the…
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Oct 28, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross will talk about the profound and enduring impact of the coronavirus on the way we live. It’s the subject of the…
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Oct 27, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, a pro-Trump militia group that’s recruited thousands of police, soldiers, and veterans--and what they might do on election…
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Oct 26, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross examines Joe Biden’s life and political career with Evan Osnos, a staff writer for the New Yorker, and author of…
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Oct 23, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, David Bianculli listens back to interviews with Timothy Leary, and his former colleague Richard Alpert, who later became known…
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Oct 23, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson. Born in Ethiopia and raised by adopted parents in Sweden, he now…
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Oct 21, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, novelist Sigrid Nunez. Her new book is about the fear that climate change, a pandemic, and far-right regimes will spell the…
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Oct 21, 2020
On the next Fresh Air. Terry Gross talks with Nina Totenberg, NPR’s longtime legal affairs correspondent, and a founding mother of NPR. They will…
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Oct 19, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, the First Amendment in the age of disinformation. You'll hear a talk with New York Times Magazine staff writer Emily Bazelon…
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Oct 16, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Heidi Schreck talks about writing and performing her show What the Constitution Means to Me – A filmed version of it premieres…
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Oct 16, 2020
Good Luck with Whatever is the latest from Los Angeles-based group Dawes. We’ll hear music from that recording as well as selections from The New OK,…
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Oct 16, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with historian H.W. Brands who considers the question of whether radical direct action or gradual reforms…
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Oct 14, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we talk with filmmaker Craig Foster about his new documentary My Octopus Teacher. It’s about a year Foster spent diving off…
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Oct 13, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, two beloved Broadway stars, Danny Burstein and Rebecca Luker, a married couple whose lives have been upended by illness. He…
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Oct 12, 2020
Dave Davies talks with Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post columnist and host of CNN’s Sunday program, GPS. In a new book, he considers the long-term…
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Oct 09, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies remembers Bob Gibson, one of the most dominating pitchers in baseball. He died last week at the age of 84. Gibson…
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Oct 09, 2020
Terry Gross talks with about why it’s been so difficult to achieve racial equity in our public schools, and how white parents seeking schools with…
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Oct 07, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we talk with New York Times health care reporter Sarah Kliff. She found that the treatment president Trump got for Covid-19…
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Oct 06, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we speak with writer Rumaan Alam. His newest, and highly anticipated novel is about a white family and older Black couple who…
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Oct 05, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Rock and roll star Lenny Kravitz. His new memoir Let Love Rule is about his life up to the release of his first album in 1989.…
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Oct 02, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, underwater explorer and photographer JILL HEINERTH has dived into underground waterways deep in the earth, and beneath a giant…
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Oct 02, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with actor Ethan Hawke, known for his roles in Dead Poets Society, Reality Bites, Training Day, the Before…
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Sep 30, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, the prospects for a constitutional crisis in the presidential election. Atlantic staff writer Barton Gellman says if Donald…
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Sep 29, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, filmmaker Kirsten Johnson talks about her new documentary, Dick Johnson Is Dead. The title refers to her elderly father, Dick…
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Sep 28, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, an inside look at the Mueller investigation from Andrew Weissmann, one of the lead prosecutors in the 22-month probe. In a new…
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Sep 25, 2020
Journalist, feminist icon, activist, and founder of Ms Magazine, Gloria Steinem is the subject of the new biopic The Glorias directed by Julie Taymor…
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Sep 23, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, political meddling in the fight against Covid-19. Politico health reporter Dan Diamond describes efforts by a Donald Trump…
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Sep 23, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Yannick Nezet Seguin, the young, charismatic conductor of the Metropolitan Opera and Philadelphia Orchestra, talks about…
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Sep 21, 2020
When Donald Trump became president, rather than put his assets into a blind trust, he held on to them - office buildings, resorts, golf courses,…
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Sep 18, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist and writer who died in 2015. He’ll talk about his work in asylums with…
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Sep 10, 2020
The new southern gothic Netflix drama series The Devil All the Time is based on the award-winning novel by Donald Ray Pollock. On the next Fresh Air,…
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Sep 09, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, repairing the human wreckage of World War II. Historian David Nasaw tells the story of more than a million people stranded in…
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Sep 08, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Yaa Gyasi, whose first novel Homegoing, about the legacy of slavery, won a National Book Critics Circle…
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Sep 07, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Dave talks with former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan, who investigated international terrorism cases, including the 9/11…
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Sep 04, 2020
Ray LaMontagne seems to have found an escape from the rush of everyday life on his latest release, Monovision. It's the first album he's made…
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Sep 04, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, two Emmy nominees in the category of Outstanding Host in Reality or Competition Program. Padma Lakshmi is nominated for Top…
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Sep 04, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry pays tribute to saxophonist Sonny Rollins, on the occasion of his 90th birthday. We feature her interview with him, and…
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Sep 02, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, two Emmy nominees. Kerry Washington has four nominations, including two for Little Fires Everywhere. Ramy Youssef has two…
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Sep 01, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt. He’s broken many stories about Donald Trump. He…
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Aug 31, 2020
In his new book The Quiet Americans, journalist Scott Anderson says the agency’s covert operations to overthrow elected governments damaged the…
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Aug 28, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Cherry Jones, who is nominated for an Emmy for her performance in the HBO series Succession. She’s already…
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Aug 27, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we celebrate the centennial of the birth of Charlie Parker, the alto saxophonist and composer who helped originate bebop.…
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Aug 26, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, a new strategy devised by epidemiologists and economists to defeat COVID-19 even before a vaccine is found. We talk with…
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Aug 25, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks about Fox News and Donald Trump with Brian Stelter, author of the new book ‘Hoax.’ Stelter is CNN’s chief…
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Aug 25, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, as the Republican convention continues, Dave Davies speaks with historian Rick Perlstein. He’s spent his career studying the…
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Aug 23, 2020
On the next Fresh Air -- how Stephen Miller became the architect of President Trump’s border and immigration policies, and Trump’s chief strategist.…
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Aug 20, 2020
The documentary Freedom Summer is now streaming on PBS. It’s a look back at 1964 when hundreds of student volunteers spent weeks registering African…
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Aug 19, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Atlantic executive editor Adrienne LaFrance explores QAnon, the conspiracy theory about a secret cabal of deep state…
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Aug 18, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, exposing the Hiroshima cover-up. Writer Lesley Blume tells the story of journalist John Hersey, whose reporting in 1946…
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Aug 17, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Miami Herald columnist, and author Carl Hiassen. He’ll talk about the pandemic and politics in Florida, and his latest novel,…
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Aug 14, 2020
On the next Fresh Air -- a gripping, inside look at the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. For two years, filmmakers Shaul Schwarz and…
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Aug 13, 2020
Sister Helen Prejean talks about her spiritual journey from entering the convent in 1957--before Vatican II, to her awakening to social justice…
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Aug 12, 2020
This season, the show with the most Emmy nominations -- 26 of them -- is the HBO series “Watchmen.” You’ll hear from one of the writers, Cord…
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Aug 11, 2020
Stuart Stevens spent decades helping elect Republicans. Now he’s working to defeat President Trump. In his new book, It Was All a Lie, he condemns…
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Aug 11, 2020
On the next fresh air, a discussion about Malcolm and Martin Luther King--their relationship to each other, their era, and to our time. A talk with…
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Aug 10, 2020
On the next Fresh air, Terry talks with the director of the new Netflix hit movie The Old Guard, Gina Prince-Bythewood. She’s the first black woman…
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Aug 07, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we’ll talk about the great pitcher Satchel Paige, his years in the Negro Leagues, and the racism that kept him out of major…
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Aug 06, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we remember Pete Hamill, who was described in the New York Times as the “quintessential New York journalist.” He died at the…
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Aug 04, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson talks about her new book Caste. It’s about the rigid racial hierarchy…
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Aug 04, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Jeffrey Toobin talks about how Trump managed to survive the Mueller investigation and impeachment. It’s the subject of…
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Aug 03, 2020
Since 2004, more than two thousand American newspapers have gone out of business. On the next Fresh Air, Washington Post media columnist Margaret…
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Jul 30, 2020
Today, a conversation with actress Claire Danes. For the 8th and final season, she’s starring as a CIA agent who struggles with a bipolar disorder in…
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Jul 29, 2020
On today’s show, director Martin Scorsese. His latest film, The Irishman was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best…
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Jul 28, 2020
Reese Witherspoon is an executive producer and star of the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show. Witherspoon starred in the films Election and Legally…
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Jul 27, 2020
Today, singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer Elton John. His memoir examining his life and career is called “Me.” He’ll talk about his music, his…
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Jul 24, 2020
Bryan Stevenson is one of the leaders in the fight against racial injustice within the justice system. His memoir, Just Mercy, was adapted into the…
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Jul 23, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we listen back to Terry’s interview with renowned foreign correspondent Chris Dickey. He died last week at age 68. Dickey also…
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Jul 22, 2020
Mary Trump’s new memoir ‘Too Much and Never Enough’ is about life in the Trump family. She says she’s written this family history, in part, to get a…
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Jul 21, 2020
Michaela Coel is the creator, writer, director, and star of the HBO series ‘I May Destroy You.’ She plays a young writer, famous on social media, who…
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Jul 20, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Jim Mccloskey, a lay minister who’s devoted the past 40 years of his life to seeking justice, freedom and exoneration for men…
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Jul 17, 2020
Terry talks with Michaela Coel. Her HBO Series "I May Destroy You" is a fictionalized account of a sexual assault she experienced after her drink was…
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Jul 16, 2020
There are 10 times more people with serious mental illness in our jails and prisons than in our state psychiatric hospitals. On the next Fresh Air,…
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Jul 16, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with actress Charlize Theron. She’s starring in the new superhero film The Old Guard. Also, actor Danny Trejo. He…
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Jul 14, 2020
Workers at Poultry processing and meatpacking plants have been hard hit by the coronavirus. On the next Fresh Air, a chat with New Yorker staff…
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Jul 13, 2020
Saturday Night Live head writer and co-anchor of Weekend Update, Colin Jost. He’s written a new memoir called “A Very Punchable Face.” He’ll talk…
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Jul 10, 2020
Andre Holland starred in the series Castle Rock, based on the Stephen King novel. Played a surgeon in the series The Knick; his film roles include…
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Jul 10, 2020
Welsh Actor Matthew Rhys is starring in the HBO series Perry Mason, which tells the criminal defense attorney’s origin story when he was a returning…
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Jul 08, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, stories of chaos and healing from hospital emergency rooms. In a new book, Dr. Michele harper writes about getting punched by…
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Jul 07, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Sarah Posner about her new book, Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump. She’s a…
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Jul 06, 2020
If you want to understand Trump’s rise to power, you should consider the tactics used by Senator Joe McCarthy. On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks…
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Jul 03, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we remember comic actor, writer and director Carl Reiner, who died Monday at age 98. He created “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and…
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Jul 03, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Padma Lakshmi host of the cooking competition series Top Chef, and the new series Taste the Nation in which…
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Jul 01, 2020
On the next fresh air, actor Patrick Stewart. This year he returned to the role he’s most famous for, Jean Luc Picard, in the series Star Trek:…
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Jun 29, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, why medical errors are so common and how some medical innovations, like electronic patient records, make errors more likely.…
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Jun 26, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, as Pride Month comes to a close -- interviews with two people who broke barriers. Cleve Jones worked alongside Harvey Milk,…
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Jun 26, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Lin Manuel Miranda returns to talk with Terry. He created the musical Hamilton and starred as Alexander Hamilton in the…
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Jun 24, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Christine Baranski, who stars in The Good Fight, playing a smart progressive partner in a law firm. It’s a spinoff of The Good…
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Jun 23, 2020
On the next fresh air, Nikole Hanna-Jones who created the New York Times 1619 Project, examining the legacy of slavery. Her essay won a Pultizer…
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Jun 22, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, the use of LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and marijuana to treat mental health issues. Terry talks with Julie Holland, a psychiatrist…
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Jun 22, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, you’ll hear from Susan Burton, author of the new memoir Empty, about her eating disorder. She also recently wrote an article…
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Jun 19, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, on Juneteenth, Rhiannon Giddens performs her original songs based on slave narratives. And we listen back to Terry’s interview…
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Jun 17, 2020
Kristen Howerton’s new memoir is about being the mother of 2 white biological children, and 2 black adopted children. It’s taught her a lot about the…
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Jun 16, 2020
As more cities open up, Terry talks with Dr. Michael Osterhohlm about where we are now in the pandemic, and what to expect in this next phase. He’s…
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Jun 15, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, what happens to women who get an abortion just under a clinic’s deadline, and what happens to women who just miss the deadline…
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Jun 12, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we’ll remember James Baldwin, one of the most influential black writers to emerge during the Civil Rights Era and address…
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Jun 12, 2020
On the next fresh air, Eve Ewing, the author of a book about racial inequality in the Chicago schools, and a book of poems called 1919, about the…
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Jun 11, 2020
Pete Davidson is the youngest cast member of Saturday Night Live. He stars in the new movie The King of Staten Island which draws on his own life and…
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Jun 09, 2020
Journalist Jamiles Lartey reports on the justice system for the Marshall Project. He’ll talk about how disproportionate use of force can turn a…
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Jun 08, 2020
Matt Zapotosky covers the justice department for the Washington Post. He’ll talk about the role of attorney general William Barr in how the Trump…
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Jun 05, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, as America wrestles with the issue of police brutality, journalist Doug Swanson tells Dave the story of one of the most…
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Jun 04, 2020
On the next Fresh Air - we look at the failed promises of Reconstruction after the civil war, when our country first tried to address the question of…
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Jun 03, 2020
Many critics of President Trump see his threat to send in the military as a move toward authoritarianism. On the next fresh air, we talk with Anne…
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Jun 02, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we talk about the protests over George Floyd’s death and the police response with Wes Moore. He’s the author of a book about…
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Jun 01, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Dave talks with science writer Sonia Shah. Her 2016 book, Pandemic, warned of deadly viral outbreaks. Her new book, The Next…
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May 29, 2020
Christine Baranski stars in The Good Fight, playing a smart progressive partner in a law firm. It’s a spinoff of The Good Wife. She’s also known for…
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May 28, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we listen back to Terry’s interview with singer-songwriter Margo Price, who brought her guitar and played some of her songs.…
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May 27, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, how we can train ourselves to breathe in ways that may improve our health, the quality of our sleep, and decrease anxiety. And…
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May 27, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, how New York City struggled to cope with the bodies of twenty thousand people who died from Covid-19 over a two-month period.…
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May 25, 2020
She won a Peabody award and an Emmy for her 2018 comedy special “Nanette,” which was controversial because of her vow to give up comedy-- because…
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May 22, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we look at a renowned 20th-century statesman who led his nation at a time of peril -- Winston Churchill. Dave talks with…
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May 20, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, for couples working at home during the pandemic, home is also the office--and for those with kids, it’s the school too. For…
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May 19, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, reporting the story of Edward Snowden and American surveillance programs. Journalist Bart Gellman broke stories from Snowden’s…
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May 18, 2020
On the next fresh air, managing anxiety and fear during the pandemic. A talk with Dan Harris, who’s been conducting online meditation sessions during…
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May 15, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, you'll hear Terry’s interview with comedian and actor Jerry Stiller who died Monday at the age of 92. With his wife he was…
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May 15, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with singer and actor Janelle Monae. She first became known for her afro-futurist funk soul hip hop, performed as…
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May 14, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, what we can learn from the 1918 influenza outbreak, the deadliest pandemic in history. We talk with John Barry, whose 2004…
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May 12, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Dave talks with David Fajgenbaum, a doctor who is working on treatments for Covid19. He’s best known for his research into the…
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May 11, 2020
We’ve already seen disruptions and delays in primaries across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. On the next Fresh Air, you’ll look at how…
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May 11, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Michael Arcenaux, author of the new collection of personal essays I Don’t Want to Die Poor. The title is a…
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May 08, 2020
On the next Fresh Air - an interview to help brighten your mood. We listen back to my conversation with Steve Martin, recorded after the publication…
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May 06, 2020
Celebrated chef Tom Colicchio was head judge on Top Chef, the cooking competition series. He’ll talk about what’s gone wrong in the food supply chain…
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May 05, 2020
Time political correspondent Molly Ball, author of a new book about the Speaker of the House, talks about how Pelosi out-maneuvered male rivals to…
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May 04, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, how depression may be triggered by the pandemic. Humorist John Moe talks with Terry about his new memoir called The Hilarious…
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May 01, 2020
Tim Gunn’s new fashion competition show Making the Cut features eco-conscious designs that fit all body types and are gender neutral. He’ll talk more…
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Apr 30, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry’s past interviews with two people we lost in recent days. Irrfan Khan was a Bollywood star, best known to Americans from…
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Apr 29, 2020
On the next Fresh Air: how the economic rescue package is benefiting the rich. We talk with New York Times investigative reporter Jesse Drucker.…
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Apr 28, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, why there will be no quick return to normal from the coronavirus. A talk with Donald McNeil of the New York Times, a science…
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Apr 27, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, the daughter of parents who had a thriving business baking and selling marijuana-laced brownies to hippies, artists, office…
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Apr 24, 2020
Actor Brian Dennehy died last week at the age of 81. You’ll hear a previous interview. Also, Kevin Whitehead pays tribute to jazz saxophonist Lee…
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Apr 24, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Mindy Kaling. She has a new Netflix series called Never Have I Ever, that draws on her experiences when she…
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Apr 22, 2020
Enabler in Chief is the title of Jane Mayer’s new article about how senate majority leader Mitch McConnell became President trump’s chief enabler, in…
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Apr 21, 2020
The pandemic isn’t the end of the world, but your anxiety about the virus may make you feel like it is. On the next fresh air, we talk with Mark…
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Apr 20, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Jennifer Finney Boylan, who’s written extensively about her life as a transgender woman, talks about her new memoir, Good Boy!…
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Apr 17, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, an interview and performance that seems right for the moment, with songwriter and singer Iris Dement, at the piano. Her music…
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Apr 17, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with actress Zoe Kazan. She’s co-starring in the HBO series The Plot Against America, based on the Philip Roth…
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Apr 15, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci has become widely admired for his straight talk during President Trump’s coronavirus briefings. On the next Fresh Air -- a talk…
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Apr 14, 2020
President Trump claims that the Deep State is conspiring to undermine his presidency. On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with David Rohde, Executive…
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Apr 13, 2020
On the next Fresh Air -- actor Jason Bateman. He stars in the Netflix series Ozark as an accountant who launders money for a drug cartel; he also…
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Apr 10, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, how income inequality and high-end services for the super-rich are dividing America. New York Times economics reporter Nelson…
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Apr 10, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we remember songwriter and singer John Prine, who died Tuesday of COVID-19. He was 73. His best-known songs include Angel from…
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Apr 08, 2020
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has been dealing with the impact of covid 19 on his city’s criminal justice system and is concerned…
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Apr 07, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Stephen King talks about living in a world that feels like a Stephen King novel. Decades ago, he wrote about a viral pandemic…
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Apr 06, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, hear all about cooking during a time of social isolation with Sam Sifton of the New York Times. He’s been the paper’s…
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Apr 03, 2020
Kerry Washington stars with Reese Witherspoon in Little Fires Everywhere, which is one of the new streaming series that many people isolating at home…
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Apr 02, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, a doctor who has worked in war zones around the world and now is battling COVID-19, treating patients in his own country,…
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Apr 02, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, our interview with singer-songwriter Adam Schlesinger who died of COVID-19 at age 52. He co-founded the band Fountains of…
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Apr 01, 2020
Science Journalist Ed Yong has been writing about the pandemic for the Atlantic. Two years ago he wrote an article about why a new plague was…
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Mar 30, 2020
The pandemic has brought to the surface fears of losing loved ones, leading many of us to ask the big questions about life and death. On the next…
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Mar 27, 2020
In celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday, we’ll listen back to the interview she recorded with Sondheim in 2010, after the publication of…
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Mar 27, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, as we evaluate our president’s performance in a time of crisis, author Erik Larsen profiles a 20th-century statesman who led…
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Mar 25, 2020
Terry talks with Ben Wittes, co-author of Unmaking the Presidency. Also, we listen back to our interview with playwright Terence McNally, who died…
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Mar 24, 2020
Michael Pollan has written bestselling books about the origins of the food we eat, and how psychedelics are helping scientists understand…
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Mar 23, 2020
Author Max Brooks tells us what he’s learned about planning for pandemics and other disasters--through researching his zombie novels, and…
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Mar 20, 2020
Marc Maron’s new stand-up comedy special is called End Times Fun—He gave it that End Times title just before the Corona virus. He’ll talk with Terry…
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Mar 19, 2020
Conductor maestro Yannick Nezet Seguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra and is also the conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Last week…
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Mar 19, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we celebrate the 90th birthday of the greatest Broadway composer and lyricist of our time, Stephen Sondheim. His birthday is…
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Mar 17, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, the case for abolishing the electoral college with Jesse Wegman author of the new book Let the People Pick the President. An…
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Mar 13, 2020
Octavia Spencer won an Oscar for her first big film role in The Help, playing a maid in Mississippi in 1963. And she was nominated for Oscars for her…
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Mar 12, 2020
On the next fresh air, The Plot Against America—the Philip Roth novel that has been adapted into a new HBO series that premieres Monday. We’ll listen…
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Mar 11, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, how mismanagement and dysfunction in the Trump administration have helped fuel the coronavirus crisis. We’ll talk with Dan…
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Mar 10, 2020
On the next Fresh Air -- New York Times reporter Ben Hubbard, author a new book, about Saudi Arabia’s young, enigmatic leader, Crown Prince Mohammed…
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Mar 09, 2020
On the next Fresh Air – Ru Paul who brought drag into the mainstream with his reality competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race—which just started a new…
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Mar 06, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with writer James McBride, known for his memoir The Color of Water. His pre-Civil War novel, the Good Lord Bird,…
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Mar 06, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, journalist and biographer Robert Caro talks about unearthing the details of political deal-making to understand the nature of…
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Mar 05, 2020
For half a century, a Swiss company has sold encryption technology to governments around the world. But what leaders of those countries didn’t know…
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Mar 03, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we speak with writer Louise Erdrich. Much of her award-winning fiction has focused on the experience of Native Americans. Her…
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Mar 02, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, wilderness explorer Roman Dial recounts his frantic search for his son who disappeared into the untracked rainforest of Costa…
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Mar 02, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, former New Orleans parole officer Jason Hardy talks about his four years on the job, where he struggled to help the 200 people…
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Feb 28, 2020
On the next Fresh Air – Terry’s interview with AIDY BRYANT, a cast member of Saturday Night Live and star of the series Shrill. The second season is…
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Feb 27, 2020
On the next Fresh Air – Trump’s Deep State Hit List. That’s the headline of an article by Terry’s guest JONATHAN SWAN, national political reporter at…
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Feb 26, 2020
On the next Fresh Air - Australian actor BEN MENDELSOHN. who plays a cop confronted with a murder and the supernatural in the HBO mini-series The…
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Feb 25, 2020
Tech journalist STEVEN LEVY whose new book about the history of Facebook is based on hundreds of interviews with former and current employees,…
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Feb 25, 2020
In the HBO series, which was adapted from Stephen King's novel, the Australian actor plays a detective trying to solve a murder — and resisting the…
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Feb 23, 2020
On the next Fresh air –Terry talks with journalist and lawyer ADAM COHEN, author of Supreme Inequality, about the Supreme Court’s 50-year shift from…
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Feb 14, 2020
Did President Trump really call his top military commanders a bunch of dopes and babies? On the next Fresh Air, we hear from two Pulitzer-Prize…
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Feb 14, 2020
We remember south African songwriter Joseph Shabalala who led the choir Lady Smith Black Mambazzo. He died Tuesday. Also, Nick Hornby. His 1995 book…
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Feb 13, 2020
On the next fresh air, how Jeff Bezos built his Amazon empire, and the issues relating to competition, regulation, and privacy now that Amazon has…
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Feb 11, 2020
World Cafe is in Charlottesville, Virginia this week for a new Sense of Place series, and today, David Wax Museum leads host Stephen Kallao on a tour…
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Feb 11, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, Jill Wine-Banks, who was a young lawyer in the special prosecutor’s office during the Watergate Investigation. And is now an…
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Feb 10, 2020
On the next Fresh Air – the billion dollar disinformation campaign to re-elect the president. Terry talks with journalist Mckay Coppins, whose new…
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Feb 07, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, we remember Kirk Douglas. We listen back to our 1988 interview with him. He died Wednesday at the age of 103. Also, our…
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Feb 07, 2020
On the next Fresh Air – Terry talks with Michael Pollan, who’s written bestselling books about the origins of the food we eat, and how psychedelics…
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Feb 06, 2020
Will the U.S. likely face further retaliation for the killing of Qassem Soleimani? Terry talks with Adam Entous, who writes about Iran’s response and…
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Feb 04, 2020
The World Health Organization has declared the new coronavirus epidemic a global health emergency. On the next Fresh Air, science writer David…
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Feb 03, 2020
On the next Fresh Air: white-collar ambition and addiction. Terry talks with journalist Eilene Zimmerman. Her memoir Smacked is about her ex-husband,…
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Jan 31, 2020
Antonio Banderas is nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in Pain and Glory, as a film director dealing with physical and psychic…
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Jan 31, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, what happens when a Chinese glass manufacturer reopens a shuttered GM plant in Ohio? We talk with filmmakers Julia Reichert &…
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Jan 29, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, journalist Kim Ghattas covered the Middle East for the BBC for 20 years, and was raised in Lebanon during the civil war. She’s…
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Jan 28, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, looking at threats to the integrity of the 2020 elections. And what happens if Donald Trump, or another candidate, doesn’t…
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Jan 27, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, singer-songwriter Amy Rigby. She has a new memoir about growing up Catholic in Pittsburgh, living in the East Village during…
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Jan 24, 2020
On the next Fresh Air: how our military leaders think about the unthinkable…Journalist Fred Kaplan says President Trump’s threat to rain fire and…
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Jan 24, 2020
The 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is Monday, January 27th. On the next Fresh Air, interviews with writer and Nobel Peace Prize…
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Jan 22, 2020
Samantha Fish Samantha Fish taught herself guitar at a very young age with the help of her father and as she grew up the blues scene in her hometown…
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Jan 22, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, a look at Attorney General William Barr with journalist David Rhode who writes about Barr’s long-held conservative views and…
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Jan 22, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, the story of when President Trump called his top military commanders a bunch of dopes and babies - we hear from two…
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Jan 20, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, actor Tim Roth, who stars in the new movie The Song of Names and the streaming tv series Tin Star. He’s been in 3 Quentin…
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Jan 17, 2020
Terry talks with Bryan Stevenson, one of the leaders in the fight against racial injustice within the justice system. The new film Just Mercy is…
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Jan 17, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, what is the purpose of religion? That question took on new urgency for religion scholar Elaine Pagels when her 6-year-old son…
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Jan 15, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, secret documents written by Iranian intelligence officers, leaked to the news organization The Intercept. They reveal how…
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Jan 14, 2020
On the next Fresh Air: Our guest will Martin Scorsese, whose new film The Irishman is nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best…
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Jan 14, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, two reporters who shared the Pulitzer prize last year for their Wall Street Journal reporting on the hush money payments to…
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Jan 10, 2020
In the 1890s Wilmington, North Carolina had a thriving black middle class, a large black electorate, and black representatives in local government.…
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Jan 10, 2020
On the next Fresh Air—we remember comedian, writer and actor Buck Henry, who died Wednesday, at the age of 89. He wrote the screenplay for the film…
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Jan 08, 2020
On the next Fresh Air –the big story we’re not talking about: the dangerously unstable relationship between the US and China. Terry talks with New…
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Jan 07, 2020
On the next Fresh Air, how the Trump and Kushner families immigrated to the U.S. and built their fortunes. Terry talks with Andrea Bernstein, author…
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Jan 06, 2020
After chronicling the lives of girls for decades, Peggy Orenstein has a turned her attention to boys in the #ME-TOO era. On the next Fresh Air she…
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Jan 05, 2020
On the next Fresh Air –Todd Phillips who wrote and directed the new film Joker, a realistic origin story of the Batman comic book villain. The joker…
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Jan 03, 2020
On the next Fresh Air – More in a series of favorite interviews from the decade that just ended. We hear from two music icons: Patti Smith and Bruce…
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Jan 02, 2020
interviews from the past decade, chosen by the Fresh Air staff. We’ll hear the interview Terry recorded with Ta-Nehisi Coates after the publication…
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Dec 31, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, more of Fresh Air’s favorite interviews from the past decade. We’ll hear this year’s interview with Howard Stern, who talked…
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Dec 31, 2019
On the next Fresh air, the new decade starts with excerpts of some of Fresh Air’s favorite concerts from the last decade- with John Baptise,…
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Dec 30, 2019
Fresh Air is ending the decade with a holiday week series of interviews featuring staff picks from the decade. In our next edition, we’ll hear from…
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Dec 26, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, we are ending the decade with a holiday week series of interviews featuring staff picks from the decade. On our next edition,…
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Dec 25, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, we go deep into our archive for a concert and interview with Rosemary Clooney, one of the stars of the film White Christmas.…
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Dec 25, 2019
On the next Fresh Air – We are ending the decade with a holiday week series of interviews featuring staff picks from the decade. On our next edition,…
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Dec 23, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, it’s Christmas Eve, and we’ll hear some great roots and rockabilly Christmas songs, performed in our studio by their composer…
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Dec 22, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Terry looks back at the year in movies and TV with our film critic Justin Chang and our tv critic David Bianculli. They’ll…
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Dec 19, 2019
Martin Scorcese’s new film The Irishman is in part about the mob-connected labor leader Jimmy Hoffa. On the next fresh air, we hear from Jack…
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Dec 18, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Adam Sandler who stars in the new crime thriller Uncut Gems as a manic New York jeweler and gambler who’s deep in debt to loan…
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Dec 17, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, how government officials misled the public about America’s 18-year conflict in Afghanistan. Washington Post reporter Craig…
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Dec 16, 2019
Julie Andrews has a new memoir about her Hollywood years which began when she was invited to the Disney Studios to play Mary Poppins. We’ll also hear…
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Dec 16, 2019
Charlize Theron stars as former FOX news host Megyn Kelly in the new film Bombshell. She tell us about transforming herself physically for the role.…
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Dec 12, 2019
Angel Olsen recently released her fourth album, called All Mirrors. Her initial recordings of the songs were stripped-down, meant to be in the style…
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Dec 04, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, what does Ukrainian President Volodeemyr Zelenskiy have to say about Trump, Putin and the impeachment hearings? Last Saturday,…
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Dec 03, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, what happens to the clothes, furniture, and electronics you drop off at the thrift store—more specifically, what happens to…
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Dec 02, 2019
A lot of B.J. Miller’s work has been informed by what happened to him nearly 30 years ago. He was seriously injured, nearly died, and lost both legs…
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Nov 29, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, actor David Harbour of the Netflix series Stranger Things. He plays the police chief of a sleepy town besieged by supernatural…
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Nov 29, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, a talk with Marielle Heller about directing A Beautiful Day in the neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks, as Fred Rogers, based on…
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Nov 27, 2019
Shortly before his death, Prince selected Dan Piepenbring to help him write his memoir. The book includes pages Prince had written, and left behind,…
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Nov 26, 2019
Edward Norton stars in Motherless Brooklyn as a private eye who has Tourette’s Syndrome and is up against powerful corrupt forces in New York city…
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Nov 25, 2019
On the next Fresh Air – Glenn Simpson & Peter Fritsch founders of the private research company Fusion GPS. During the 2016 campaign, they raised some…
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Nov 22, 2019
The PBS documentary series “College Behind Bars” tells the moving story of prisoners taking rigorous courses and earning degrees while serving their…
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Nov 20, 2019
TODAY’S PROGRAM MY BE PRE-EMPTED BY SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY. On the next Fresh Air, a talk about the influence of foreign…
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Nov 19, 2019
TODAY’S PROGRAM MY BE PRE-EMPTED BY SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY. Marielle Heller director of the new film A Beautiful Day in…
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Nov 18, 2019
TODAY’S PROGRAM MY BE PRE-EMPTED BY SPECIAL COVERAGE OF THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY. A talk with investigative journalist Heidi Blake, author of…
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Nov 15, 2019
Actor Robert Pattinson stars in the new film “The Lighthouse,” playing an apprentice to a lighthouse keeper. Pattinson became a teen heartthrob for…
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Nov 15, 2019
Season three of the Netflix series The Crown about Queen Elizabeth and the Royal family begins Sunday. It’s set during the turbulent 1960s. We’ll…
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Nov 13, 2019
Reese Witherspoon executive-produced and stars with Jennifer Anniston in the new Apple TV+ series The Morning Show. It’s about a network TV morning…
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Nov 12, 2019
TODAY'S PROGRAM MY BE PRE-EMPTED BY LIVE NPR NEWS COVERAGE OF THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY. Willem Dafoe, the four-time Oscar nominee, has portrayed…
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Nov 11, 2019
We talk with New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz who has spent the past few years embedding with alt-right trolls and propagandists, profiling…
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Nov 10, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, a talk about the late comedian Garry Shandling with his friend Judd Apatow. He's edited a new book about the comic. The book…
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Nov 06, 2019
On the next Fresh Air - the fight between Congress and the Trump Administration over the House’s legal right to enforce subpoenas requiring senior…
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Nov 05, 2019
Saeed Jones talks about his new memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, about growing up black, gay and closeted in Texas, in the era when he thought gay…
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Nov 04, 2019
Journalist David Owen says we take our ears for granted, abusing them with rock concerts, loud restaurants and power tools. Most of us will lose some…
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Nov 01, 2019
Allison Moorer, the country music singer, has a new album, and a new memoir that's about coming to terms with the murder-suicide of her parents over…
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Nov 01, 2019
Film producer Robert Evans died Saturday. Evans challenged established Hollywood in the 1960s by hiring young writers and directors like Roman…
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Oct 30, 2019
New York Times correspondent in Ukraine, Andrew Kramer, talks about the impact of President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine on that country, the…
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Oct 29, 2019
Sam Esmail is the creator, writer, and director of the TV series Mr. Robot, starring Rami Malek, as a hacker, with dissociative personality disorder.…
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Oct 28, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Kevin Wilson, author of the new novel Nothing to See Here about a woman who takes over the care of twin children who burst…
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Oct 25, 2019
Shortly before his death, the singer Prince selected Dan Piepenbring to help him write his memoir. On the next Fresh Air, we talk with Piepenbring…
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Oct 24, 2019
On the next Fresh Air – Tom Perotta, creator of the new HBO series Mrs. Fletcher, based on his novel about a divorced single mother, whose son has…
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Oct 23, 2019
Katheryn Hahn stars in the new HBO series Mrs. Fletcher based on the best-seller by Tom Perotta about a divorced woman who has a confusing sexual…
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Oct 22, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, as concerns rise about the possible resurgence of ISIS, we get a first-hand account of the 2017 battle to drive the terrorist…
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Oct 21, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, a talk about the U.S. troops pull out from the Kurdish controlled part of Syria, with The Washington Post’s Beirut Bureau…
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Oct 18, 2019
On the next Fresh Air – to mark singer Anita O’Day’s centennial - a tribute by jazz critic Kevin Whitehead, and a replay of Terry's 1987 interview…
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Oct 18, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, we talk about Janis Joplin, the uncompromising, barrier-breaking, rock star with Holly George Warren author of the new…
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Oct 16, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, we talk with journalist Gilbert Gaul, author of The Geography of Risk. He writes about developers who create risky costal…
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Oct 15, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, director, screenwriter, and actor Taika Waititi. His new film “Jojo Rabbit” won this year’s audience award at the Toronto Film…
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Oct 14, 2019
Ronan Farrow’s investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s predatory behavior, published in The New Yorker, won a Pulitzer Prize. In his new book, Farrow…
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Oct 11, 2019
Elton John returns to talk to Terry about his new memoir. It’s pretty forthcoming about family, addiction, and sexuality… and so was their…
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Oct 11, 2019
The new Netflix Breaking Bad Movie centers on Aaron Paul’s character Jesse Pinkman, the drug dealer who teamed up with his former science teacher to…
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Oct 09, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, growing up in the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, which preached that God hates gay people. The church picketed the funerals…
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Oct 08, 2019
We Talk with Joshua Green, Who Wrote a Book About Steve Bannon on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4pm On the next Fresh Air, how the same organization that…
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Oct 07, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, the whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica’s role in the 2016 presidential election. The company harvested personal…
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Oct 04, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with journalist and biographer Claire Tomalin about her own story. Her memoir is about the conflicting desires to…
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Oct 02, 2019
On the next fresh air, Conan O’Brien. He’s changed the format of his late-night TV show and entered the podcast world with a popular interview show.…
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Oct 02, 2019
Terry talks with the authors of the new book Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, Julie Hirschfeld Davis & Michael Shear of the New…
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Oct 01, 2019
On the next fresh air, Jack Goldsmith. He handled sensitive national security matters as head of the Office of Legal Counsel in George W. Bush’s…
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Sep 27, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, actor Antonio Banderas talks with Terry about his long collaboration with Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar. Their work…
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Sep 27, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with nature photographer Joel Sartore. He created the Photo Ark project - now in its 15th year - to document…
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Sep 25, 2019
On the next fresh air, as the formal impeachment inquiry begins - posing the greatest threat yet to the Trump Presidency - a look at the life and…
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Sep 24, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks about a wonderful but largely forgotten chapter of music history, the singing cowboy, with Doug Green. He wrote a…
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Sep 23, 2019
On the next Fresh Air -- writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. After writing three non-fiction books dealing with race and identity, and new Black Panther stories…
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Sep 20, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Tegan & Sara - twins, singer-songwriters, and LGBTQ icons. They have a new memoir about their tumultuous high…
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Sep 19, 2019
On the next Fresh Air -- As Downtown Abbey the movie opens in theatres, we feature Dave Davies’ interviews with the series creator Julian Fellowes,…
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Sep 18, 2019
On the next Fresh Air -- journalist Andrea Mitchell chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News and anchor of her MSNBC show, looks back on her…
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Sep 18, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked documents to journalists…
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Sep 16, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, two New York Times reporters who covered the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings investigate parts of the story that weren’t…
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Sep 16, 2019
Some of today’s most divisive issues related to voting rights, who gets to be a citizen, should there be reparations for slavery—are issues that you…
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Sep 13, 2019
Singer Linda Ronstadt rose to stardom during the height of the 60s counterculture. She's sung folk, pop, rock, as well as American standards, and the…
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Sep 11, 2019
The overseas markets for scrap plastic have pretty much dried up. So, what's to be done with our recycling? On the next Fresh Air a talk with Kate…
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Sep 10, 2019
We talk with New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey. In their new book She Said they write about their investigation, and the people and…
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Sep 10, 2019
Tan France is the fashion expert on the Netflix series Queer Eye. He has a new memoir about growing up gay in a traditionally religious South-Asian…
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Sep 09, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, the CIA's secret experiments with LSD in the 50s and 60s in search of a drug that could be used to control the minds of…
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Sep 06, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with the star of The Deuce, Maggie Gyllenhaal. She plays a sex worker who becomes an actress in, and then a…
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Sep 04, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Farenthold. His beat is following the money of Trump…
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Sep 03, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, the alarming growth of overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid, fentanyl. Dave Davies talks with journalist Ben Westoff,…
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Sep 02, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Emmy week concludes with more nominees. We’ll hear from Raphael Bob-Waksberg, creator of the adult animated comedy series…
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Sep 02, 2019
James Burton has influenced many rock and country musicians. He played with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and on many Phil Spector…
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Aug 30, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Emmy week continues with Terry’s interviews with 2 nominees for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series: Randy Rainbow, for his…
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Aug 29, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, our Emmy week continues with two nominees in the category Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Christine Applegate who stars…
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Aug 28, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Emmy week continues with the Netflix series When They See Us, about the wrongful conviction of the Central Park Five. It’s…
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Aug 26, 2019
On the next Fresh Air -- Emmy week continues with Phoebe Waller Bridge, who’s nominated for her work on the comedy series Fleabag which she wrote and…
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Aug 23, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, we remember Peter Fonda, and listen back to Terry’s 1998 interview with him. Fonda was best known for his role as a…
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Aug 23, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, we begin a week of Terry’s interviews with this year's Emmy award nominees, and two Saturday Night Live alums: Bill Hader…
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Aug 21, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, we speak with Washington Post investigative reporter Scott Higham, about newly-released federal data tracking the 76 billion…
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Aug 20, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Dave talks with character actor Stephen Root, who plays a handler to a hitman in the HBO series Barry. He's just received his…
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Aug 19, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, the story of a pioneering anthropologist in the 1920s and 30s and his students who challenged the static notions of race, sex…
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Aug 16, 2019
Terry talks with Jonathan Groff. He stars in the Netflix series Mindhunter, which is about to start Season 2. Groff played King George in Hamilton,…
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Aug 16, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with underwater explorer and photographer Jill Heinerth, who has dived into unmapped caves deep in the…
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Aug 14, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, rescuing orphaned kittens. We talk with Hannah Shaw, aka the Kitten Lady, about her work saving orphaned neo-natal and older…
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Aug 13, 2019
Terry talks with Janet Mock, a writer, director, and producer of the TV series Pose, about the underground gay and trans ball culture of the late…
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Aug 12, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, the secret history of Koch Industries and how the Kochs changed corporate and political power in America. We talk with…
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Aug 11, 2019
Sister Helen Prejean is best known for her 1993 memoir, Dead Man Walking, about her role as a spiritual adviser to a convicted killer on death row.…
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Aug 11, 2019
I'm not sure that any creature is more marvelous than the honeybee, with its highly evolved social organization, its ability to create honey, and, of…
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Aug 09, 2019
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our…
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Aug 09, 2019
On the next fresh air, we remember Toni Morrison, and listen back to highlights from three of Terry’s interviews—from 1987, after the publication of…
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Aug 09, 2019
Terry talks with Sister Helen Prejean who wrote about ministering to men on death row in the book Dead Man Walking. At the age of 80, she has a new…
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Aug 08, 2019
The Nobel laureate died Monday at 88. Terry Gross talked with Morrison in 1987 after she wrote Beloved, in 1992 after she authored Jazz and in 2015…
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Aug 07, 2019
Dave Davies talks with investigative journalist Michael Isikoff who uncovered what he describes as the previously unreported role of Russian…
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Aug 07, 2019
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. When a young staffer for the Democratic National Committee was murdered in Washington, D.C.,…
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Aug 07, 2019
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The Emmy-nominated series "Succession" tells the story…
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Aug 06, 2019
Actor Geena Davis who starred in the films Thelma and Louise and A League of Their Own and is the founder of The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in…
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Aug 06, 2019
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest Geena Davis starred in two…
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Aug 05, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, we talk with New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino. In a new collection of essays, she writes from the perspective of a…
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Aug 05, 2019
Jia Tolentino's strict Christian upbringing backfired. "I am sure that you don't send your kid to Christian school for 12 years and hope that they'll…
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Aug 05, 2019
Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right…
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Aug 05, 2019
Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right…
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Aug 04, 2019
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. We're going to listen back to an interview with one of America's foremost documentary filmmakers, D.A.…
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Aug 04, 2019
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: Before we begin, I want to add our voices to the many who have expressed…
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Aug 02, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, filmmaker Rodney Evans talks with Terry. He’s lost much of his vision but he’s still making movies. His new documentary,…
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Aug 02, 2019
Scorching temperatures made this past June the hottest on record. On the next Fresh Air, National Geographic conservation photographer Paul Nicklen…
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Aug 02, 2019
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our…
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Aug 01, 2019
Paul Nicklen has spent decades documenting the Arctic and the Antarctic. He often finds himself in frigid waters, just a camera's length away from…
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Aug 01, 2019
The title character in the coolly engrossing new movie Luce is a high school student who seems exemplary from every angle. Played in a remarkable…
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Jul 31, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, comic, actor and writer Wanda Sykes talks with Terry about being a comic during the Obama era and the Trump era. Sykes does a…
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Jul 31, 2019
Before Wanda Sykes became a comic, she worked as a procurement officer for the National Security Agency and had top security clearance. But she…
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Jul 30, 2019
Would it surprise you to know that while you’re sleeping, your smart phone is sharing your personal data with companies you’ve never heard of? On the…
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Jul 30, 2019
Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler listened to four years' worth of audio that Amazon had captured and stored from his Alexa smart…
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Jul 30, 2019
Set in an immigration detention center, the seventh season of the Netflix series continues to take the plight of poor and minority women seriously —…
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Jul 29, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Laura Lippman, author of the popular Tess Monaghan detective series. Her new stand-alone crime novel, Lady in…
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Jul 29, 2019
Count Laura Lippman among those who take issue with President Trump's recent tweets characterizing Baltimore as a "disgusting, rat and rodent…
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Jul 28, 2019
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The Netflix animated series "Tuca & Bertie" has a look that's similar to another Netflix…
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Jul 28, 2019
There are quadrillions of insects on earth. Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, a professor of conservation biology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences,…
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Jul 26, 2019
On the next Fresh Air: We look at the bizarre world of insects, and why we can’t live without them. Terry talks with the author of "Buzz, Sting,…
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Jul 26, 2019
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our…
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Jul 26, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with three members of the band Ranky Tanky. They perform contemporary versions of songs from the Gullah tradition…
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Jul 25, 2019
Set in Hollywood in 1969, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star as a TV actor and his stunt double. The movie's low-key hangout vibes may test your…
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Jul 24, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer talks about her new article investigating the accusations against Al Franken that led him to…
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Jul 24, 2019
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. In a new article in The New Yorker, titled "The Case Of Al Franken," my guest Jane Mayer…
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Jul 23, 2019
On the next Fresh Air – Lulu Wang talks about drawing on her own experiences to write and direct the new film The Farewell. When her grandmother in…
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Jul 23, 2019
When Wang's grandmother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, the family flew to China to see her, but decided not to tell her the prognosis. "I turned…
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Jul 22, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, sleep disorder specialist Guy Leschziner, author of The Nocturnal Brain. He’s seen it all: insomnia, night terrors,…
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Jul 22, 2019
Krassner, who died July 21, published and edited the magazine The Realist from 1958 until 1974 and became known as "the father of the underground…
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Jul 22, 2019
We tend to think of being asleep or awake as an either-or prospect: If you're not asleep, then you must be awake. But sleep disorder specialist and…
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Jul 21, 2019
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. On the next Fresh Air - a talk about recent breakthroughs in treating and preventing heart…
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Jul 21, 2019
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Breakthroughs in heart medicine, including surgical procedures, devices and medications, have…
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Jul 21, 2019
The original Veronica Mars premiered on television 15 years ago, which, in TV terms, was a whole different era. David Milch's HBO series Deadwood,…
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Jul 21, 2019
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our…
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Jul 19, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, we listen back to Terry’s interview with astronaut Michael Collins, who was part of the historic landing on the moon 50 years…
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Jul 18, 2019
We listen to archival interviews with Michael Collins, of Apollo 11; Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield; and…
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Jul 18, 2019
On the next Fresh Air –The migrant crisis on the southern border, and how years of dysfunction in the U. S. Customs and Border Protection Agency—as…
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Jul 17, 2019
The best scene in Disney's incredibly photo-realistic remake of The Lion King features a computer-generated beetle rolling a ball of…
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Jul 16, 2019
On the next Fresh Air – Terry talks with Randy Rainbow, who writes and performs satirical songs about President Trump set to the melodies of show…
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Jul 16, 2019
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens died yesterday at age 99. We're going to listen back to our…
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Jul 16, 2019
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Song parodies about President Trump…
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Jul 15, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, a wide-ranging discussion about TV with Emily Nussbaum, the Pulitzer Prize winning TV critic for The New Yorker. . . Her new…
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Jul 15, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead. His new novel, set in the early 60’s, is based on the…
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Jul 15, 2019
Whitehead's new novel is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. "If there's one place like this,…
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Jul 15, 2019
It's pretty rare for a writer to produce a novel that wins the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and, then, a scant three years later, bring…
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Jul 14, 2019
When TV critic Emily Nussbaum was growing up in the '70s, she says television wasn't something to be analyzed, criticized and picked apart. "Even…
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Jul 12, 2019
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our…
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Jul 12, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, baseball great Keith Hernendez. His memoir is out in paperback. Also, we remember former pitcher Jim Bouton whose book Ball…
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Jul 11, 2019
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Actor Rip Torn, who had a long career in film, television and theater, died Tuesday at his home in Connecticut.…
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Jul 11, 2019
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Actor Rip Torn, who had a long career in film, television and theater, died Tuesday at his home in Connecticut.…
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Jul 11, 2019
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Actor Rip Torn, who had a long career in film,…
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Jul 10, 2019
Reports of immigrant children being held in squalid conditions at a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas have provoked public outrage and…
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Jul 10, 2019
The Farewell opens with five cheeky words: "based on an actual lie." This funny, melancholy ensemble drama was inspired by an experience that the…
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Jul 09, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, a new Yiddish language production of Fiddler on the Roof is currently in New York. Terry talks with Steven Skybell who plays…
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Jul 09, 2019
A new, Yiddish language production of the musical is currently running off-Broadway. Steven Skybell, who plays Tevye, and Joel Grey, who directs the…
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Jul 08, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, a talk about last month’s Supreme Court decisions on gerrymandering and the census citizenship question—and what the next…
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Jul 08, 2019
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The Supreme Court handed down two decisions at the end of their session last month that could…
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Jul 08, 2019
Jessup Collins wants out. The main character of Alexi Zentner's tough new novel, Copperhead, Jessup is a 17-year-old high school football star with a…
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Jul 07, 2019
In 2015, Travis Rieder, a medical bioethicist with Johns Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics, was involved in a motorcycle accident…
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Jul 05, 2019
Terry Gross speaks with Travis Reider. After shattering his foot, followed by six surgeries, he became dependent on opioids. With difficulty, he was…
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Jul 05, 2019
At the age of 86 WILLIE NELSON has a new album. On the next Fresh Air we listen back to excerpts of Terry's interviews with him, and hear a review of…
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Jul 05, 2019
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our…
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Jul 03, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Rapper and singer Lizzo talks about her latest album, ‘Cuz I Love You’, her body positivity, and her background as a classical…
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Jul 02, 2019
We talk with Sarah Jessica Parker, the star of the HBO comedy/drama series Divorce which is beginning its third season about a couple starting new…
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Jul 02, 2019
Sarah Jessica Parker has spent much of her acting career exploring what it means to be in a relationship — and to be single. In the HBO series Sex…
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Jul 02, 2019
In the viscerally unnerving films of Ari Aster, there's nothing more horrific than the reality of human grief. His haunted-house thriller,…
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Jul 01, 2019
We talk with journalist Adam Higgenbotham, author of Midnight in Chernobyl, who writes about the design flaws and shortcuts, human hubris, soviet…
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Jun 30, 2019
Verge journalist Casey Newton investigated working conditions for the people who determine what material can be posted to Facebook. Many are…
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Jun 28, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, we talk with journalist Casey Newton about Facebook moderators, the people who are contracted to monitor texts or images of…
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Jun 28, 2019
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our…
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Jun 27, 2019
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with John Green, author of popular young adult novels including The Fault in Our Stars, which was adapted into a…
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Jun 27, 2019
On June 30, the Showtime network launches a new TV miniseries called The Loudest Voice. Based on the Gabriel Sherman book The Loudest Voice in the…
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Jun 27, 2019
Algorithms were around for a very long time before the public paid them any notice. The word itself is derived from the name of a 9th-century Persian…
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Jun 26, 2019
On the next Fresh Air – As a young woman, Tracey Edwards dreamed of sailing around the world. In 1989, Edwards led an all-female crew in a 33…
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Jun 26, 2019
I'll say this much for the breezy but dispiriting musical romance Yesterday: It has a clever conceit that it doesn't make the mistake of trying to…
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Jun 26, 2019
In the 1980s, Tracy Edwards dreamed of racing a sailboat around the world. But at the time, open ocean sailboat racing was a male-dominated sport.…
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